For your user name you can add Uppsala University to your family name and given name. This makes things easier for journalists and you market the university indirectly.

Create a user page using the template for Uppsala University. Log in and click on your name in the menu at top right. Press ‘Create’ to edit your user page. Press ‘Insert’/‘Template’. Write in the name of template: ‘Profile UU’ and click ‘Add template’. Fill in the details click ‘Insert’.

Wikipedia is a reference work. This means that unpublished research should not be published via Wikipedia.

Use information already written for the general public, for example:

press releases

fact sheets

popular science-style summaries of applications etc.

Try to update the information in Wikipedia before, for example, a press release goes out. The number of Wikipedia searches normally increases considerably after press releases.

You can see the number of views for an article by pressing ‘Show history’/‘Number of page views’.

If you are a doctoral student, you have a good opportunity to contribute to Wikipedia once your thesis is completed.

Other educational institutions use Wikipedia as a reporting tool for student projects. Students of biology and medical science at Linnaeus University, for example, have expanded existing Wikipedia articles and written new ones as a compulsory part of their work to be assessed.